GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| distend | extend |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |